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last Christmas. On another thread, started yesterday... mummycrafts wrote (see) .. I grow more exotic plants including curry leaf trees (indoors) ginseng and Orchids in my conservatory I've never seen a curry leaf tree, but from pictures it looks like a

    kerri, is it the scent of hyacinths that you don't like? I'm not a fan of cut flowers at all except sweet peas if I grow them. I prefer my flowers live and growing outside.   Also, in the past, kittens and young cats have always seen flowers in vases

My favourite in the winter is the Sarcococca - smells so sweetly and for a great distance. My late husband was blind for 15 years and I filled the garden with scented plants for his sake. His favourite was Sweet William and I still grow lots

I saw a poinsettia plant in Nairobi over fourteen feet high in full flower. It was glorious but then my Clematis montana is too, climbing over my garage roof. I agree, Pippa, it's lovely to see the exotics but the real thrill is what we can grow

Hi all, not sure if you can help me but I have recently stared to keep Orchids after being given 2 as gifts, I really like them but have found that although they develop what look like healthy buds these all fall off at several stages

look out for this orchid-like, leafless, flower coming up, often yards from the host plant, from April onwards. I would love to grow a rambling rose against a wall, covered in pebbledash, but am not too sure how to prune a rambling rose, and how often

I bet no-one has thought to do a parasitic garden. I tend the Orobanche garden in the Bristol Botanic garden and find it so fascinating that I bore my friends by forever looking for broomrapes. They are as beautiful as orchids. A hemiparasitic

have will not grow here. It was amazing to see so many wild orchids growing on trees. Here we buy them in pots for house plants, quite expensive. We can grow camelias and magnolias like yours out in the garden. I will send some photos of Dordogne

would possibly kill its appeal anyway! I wonder whether the way forward is gardening clubs, as was featured on a tv news item the other day. A school had an orchid club and pupils were becoming expert in their care. Schools often have space for a garden

geologists are consulted before nuclear sites are given planning permission, but I would like to know if we can grow vegetables that are safe when episodes like Chernobyl occur. Anyone out there well versed on the subject? Thanks for all your comments